"Hymenoptera" means "Membrane-wing".
Ants, Wasps, and Bees have two pairs of membranous wings. While ants generally do not have wings, the reproductives do. This section on wasps includes sawflies, velvet ants, parasitic wasps, and those most commonly identified by the public as wasps (stining wasps). I have broken out bees and ants separately for ease of use, although scientifically they should be included with the stinging wasps.
The Wasp
by Ogden Nash
"The wasp and all his numerous family
I look upon as a major calamity.
He throws open his nest with prodigality,
But I distrust his waspitality."
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Jpe9h5W5Z8Aep2CGt7fhxzU2a5HigAFdqEa5kFx8awx7Qt6BPfBKdpxTf45w52hzMmeWJS1lSiztIF7d.QGKZXedfny8vrJ6M?continueMode=true
Ants, Wasps, and Bees have two pairs of membranous wings. While ants generally do not have wings, the reproductives do. This section on wasps includes sawflies, velvet ants, parasitic wasps, and those most commonly identified by the public as wasps (stining wasps). I have broken out bees and ants separately for ease of use, although scientifically they should be included with the stinging wasps.
The Wasp
by Ogden Nash
"The wasp and all his numerous family
I look upon as a major calamity.
He throws open his nest with prodigality,
But I distrust his waspitality."
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Jpe9h5W5Z8Aep2CGt7fhxzU2a5HigAFdqEa5kFx8awx7Qt6BPfBKdpxTf45w52hzMmeWJS1lSiztIF7d.QGKZXedfny8vrJ6M?continueMode=true
Sawfly - Bristly Rose Slug - Cladius difformis
3 photos
Willow Apple Gall Sawfly - Pontania californica
5 photos
Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp - Ophion sp.
3 photos
Ichneumon wasp - Netelia sp
1 photos
Ichneumon wasp - Unidentified sp.
1 photos
Ichneumon wasp 1 -Compsocryptus calipterus brevicornis
3 photos
Ichneumon wasp 2 - Unidentified sp.
2 photos
Ichneumon wasp 3 - Unidentified sp.
6 photos
Ichneumon wasp 4 - Unidentified sp.
2 photos
Ichneumon wasp 5 - Unidentified sp.
2 photos
Ichneumon wasp 6 - Pimpla sp.
1 photos
Ichneumon wasp 7 - Temelucha grapholithae
1 photos
Ichneumon wasp - Unidentified sp. (sub-family Campopleginae)
6 photos
Gasteruptiid wasp - Gasteruption sp.
13 photos
Braconid wasp 1 - Unidentified sp.
2 photos
Braconid wasps - Unidentified spp.
4 photos
Braconid wasp - Aerophilus sp.
1 photos
Braconid wasp 3 - Lytopylus sp.
3 photos
Braconid wasp 4- Unidentified sp. (Subfamily Microgastrinae)
5 photos
Braconid wasps - Subfamily Aphidiinae
5 photos
Chalcid wasp 1 - Conura sp.
4 photos
Chalcid wasp - Unidentified spp.
7 photos
Flat Wasp - Family Bethylidae
4 photos
Pteromalid wasp - (Pteromalus puparum?)
3 photos
Cuckoo wasp - Chrysura pacifica
3 photos
Cuckoo wasp - Omalus sp.
1 photos
Steel-blue cricket hunter - Chlorion aerarium
17 photos
Great golden digger wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus
10 photos
Wasp - Sphex lucae
7 items
Black and yellow mud dauber - Sceliphron caementarium
20 photos
Grass carrying wasp - Isodontia elegans
4 photos
Thread-waisted wasp - Isodontia philadelphica
2 photos
Sphecid wasp - Prionyx sp.
5 photos
Cutworm wasp - Podalonia sp.
3 photos
Cutworm wasp - Podalonia sp.
2 photos
Grass-carrying Wasp - Isodontia mexicana
4 photos
Burrowing wasp 1 - Ammophila sp.
1 photos
Burrowing wasp 2 - Ammophila sp.
1 photos
Burrowing wasp 3 - Ammophila sp.
2 photos
Burrowing wasp 4 - Ammophila sp.
2 photos
Burrowing wasp 6 - Ammophila sp.
1 photos
Square-headed Wasp - Astata sp..
2 photos
Square-headed wasp - Unidentified sp.
1 photos
Oxybelus Wasps - Oxybelus sp.
2 photos
Sand wasp 1 - Bembix americana (comata)
17 photos
Sand wasp 2 - Tachysphex sp.
2 photos
Sand-loving wasp - Tachytes distinctus
1 photos
Sand Wasp - Hoplisoides sp.
2 photos
Beewolf - Philanthus sp.
5 photos
Weevil wasp - Cerceris sextoides
24 photos
Weevil wasp - Cerceris bicornuta
10 photos
Weevil wasp - Cerceris convergens
2 photos
Weevil wasp 2 - Cerceris sp.
2 photos
Velvet ant - Dasymutilla sp.
5 photos
Nocturnal velvet ant -Sphaeropthalma blakeii
1 photos
Nocturnal velvet ant - Sphaeropthalma unicolor
4 photos
Nocturnal velvet ant - Sphaeropthalma parapenalis
1 photos
Chyphotid Wasp - Chyphotes sp.
1 photos
Scoliid wasp - Dielis tolteca
37 photos
Scoliid wasp - Crioscolia alcione
2 photos
Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis mildei
8 photos
Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis chrysothemis
2 photos
Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis sp.
15 photos
Mud-nesting spider wasp - Ageniella coronata
1 photos
Spider wasp - Episyron conterminus posterus
7 items
Spider wasp - Unidentified sp.
4 photos
Spider wasp - Unidentified sp.
1 photos
Spider wasp 2 - Unidentified sp.
3 photos
Spider wasp 3 - Dipogon calipterus
10 photos
Common paper wasp - Polistes exclamans
31 photos
Paper wasp - Polistes apachus
6 photos
Golden paper wasp - Polistes aurifer
6 photos
European paper wasp - Polistes dominula
19 photos
Mason wasp - Ancistrocerus sp.
2 photos
Mason wasp - Ancistrocerus bustamente
1 photos
Mason wasp 2 - Euodynerus hidalgo
14 photos
Mason wasp 3 - Euodynerus sp.
7 photos
Mason Wasp - Pachodynerus pulverulentus
22 photos
Mason wasp 4 - Parancistrocerus declivatus
13 photos
Mason wasp - Ancistrocerus lineativentris
9 photos
Potter wasp 1 - Eumenes verticalis
2 photos
Potter wasp 2 - Eumenes crucifera
5 photos
Western Yellowjacket - Vespula pensylvanica
9 photos
All images © Kim Moore (contact for use)